Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “SNAP Back to Health Act of 2022”.
SNAP Back to Health Act of 2022
A BILL
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to prohibit the use of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to purchase sugary beverages.
Sec. 2 Amendments
Section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012) is amended—
in subsection (k) by inserting “sugary beverages,” after “alcoholic beverages,”, and
by inserting after subsection (r) the following:
“(r–1) “Sugary beverage” means a beverage that contains brown sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, lactose, malt syrup, maltose, molasses, raw sugar, and sucrose, aspartame, Splenda, acesulfame potassium, stevia, or any similar substance as determined by the Secretary.”